![]() Basically, use that round brush to paint the sides of the stems like you are painting highlights on grass or leaves. That brilliant yellow green will show up against the dark phthalo green/black that you painted on the base layer. Paint Brilliant Yellow Green On the Leaves with a #4 round brush. You don’t have to disguise all those stripes yet!ĩ. Use a medium size round brush to get most of the shape and then switch to a smaller round brush to get the stems to point at the tips. I mixed a little bit of phthalo green with mars black to create a very dark green. This will be our “under-painting” of the pineapple. Paint in the entire shape, both the stems and leaves a solid 2-3 coats of phthalo green + mars black. Remember that the stem should be almost the same height of the fruit of the pineapple. Then draw some loose lines on the inside of the pineapple stem. Then draw loose zig-zag leaf lines for the top of the stem. Using a piece of chalk, draw a curved line that goes up to almost the same height as the fruit. It should be enough to see when we paint the pineapple in. Keep in mind that you will not be able to see the drawing well on the white part of the canvas. Draw the rest of the fruit part with chalk. Then with a piece of chalk, draw a curved line to represent the top of the fruit/ bottom of the stem.Ħ. With that knowledge, I marked the middle of my canvas because this is where the bottom of the stem will be. ![]() The leaves of the pineapple are almost exactly the height of the fruit. Then draw a little curve with chalk to represent the bottom of the green stem. Find the exact center of the canvas and make a little mark. Remember when I said don’t add any water to the black paint? Well I did and that’s how I know it will run under the tape! If this happened to you (even if you didn’t add any water) then no need to worry! You can always get a small brush and paint white back over any of the mess ups from the tape.ĥ. Wait for the black to completely dry and then remove the tape. Use a 5/8″ Flat to paint in between the lines and on the sides of the canvas! Don’t add water to the paint! Doing so will make the paint “run” under that tape.Ĥ. Paint Mars Black in between the paint lines. The painters tape can be wrapped all the way on the sides of the canvas if you are using a stretched 3D canvas.ģ. I also used a T-Square Ruler to help make all the tape lines level. I made my lines spaced apart the same width of the painters tape. Wait for the white to dry then apply horizontal painters tape lines to the canvas.Īfter your white dries, get your painters tape and apply the tape lines. You can make your strokes go any direction at this point.Ģ. This might be kind of odd but I didn’t want blank canvas stripes. I painted the canvas all white using a 5/8″ flat brush. (I’m using an 8 x 10 canvas for the photos in this post) Paint the canvas titanium white using a 5/8″ flat brush. ![]() The traceable is totally not necessary because the pineapple is easy to draw! However, if you tried the drawing and just couldn’t get it down, I totally understand! No worries because I provide a traceable! Save the image below for printing or go to my PDF library for the PDF version.
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